Communication With God Part Two
By Johnny Angel
Dear friends,
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Mine went well all except for
me getting sick, but I seem to get sick every Thanksgiving. So please
pray that I will get better.
Well, in my second look at the importance of our communication with
God I simply want to say that praying to God for others will help them
through their situations. The following sotry makes this clear:
The Reason We Pray: A True Story Reported by an OMF Missionary at
His Home Church
While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, I traveled every two
weeks by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This
requires camping overnight halfway. One of these trips, I saw two men
fighting in the city; one was seriously hurt, so I treated him and
witnessed to him about the Lord Jesus Christ. I then returned home
without incident.
Upon arriving in the city several weeks later, I was approached by the
man I had treated earlier. He told me he had known that I carried
money and medicine. He said, "Some friends and I followed you into
the jungle knowing you would camp overnight. We waited for you to
go to sleep and planned to kill you and take your money and drugs.
Just as we were about to move into your campsite, we saw that you
were surrounded by 26 armed guards." I laughed at this and said I was
certainly all alone out in the jungle campsite. The young man pressed
the point, "No sir, I was not the only one to see the guards. My five
friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of
those guards that we were afraid and left you alone."
Later.........
As I recounted this account during a church presentation in Michigan,
one of the men in the church jumped up and interrupted the missionary.
He asked, "Can you tell me the exact date when this happened?" The
missionary thought for a while and recalled the date. The man in the
congregation related his side of the story:
"On that night in Africa it was morning here. I was preparing to
play golf. As I put my bags in the car, I felt the Lord leading me to
pray for you. In fact, the urging was so great that I called the men of
this church together to pray for you. Will all of those men who met with
the Lord please stand?"
The men who had met that day to pray together stood - there were
26 of them.
N Prayer,
Johnny <*}}}><